I would second what Aurelien has already said. Having source packages would be definitely beneficial in supporting larger number of distributions that generally rely on similar package management but then also have quirks that make it difficult to install binary packages.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Aurelien Francillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Thursday 17 July 2008 12:52:43 Stefano "Kismet" Lenzi, vous avez écrit : >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:23, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi list. >> > >> > TinyOS provides Ubuntu packages, with installation instructions here: >> > >> > http://www.tinyos.net/scoop/story/2007/8/15/234856/990 >> > >> > I've browsed the package repo, and don't see any source packages. >> > >> > Could source packages be provided? They would be very useful for users >> > to make their own, custom packages. >> >> I think that having access to the source package would really benefit >> the community! In particular, it would be even possible to provide a >> daily or weekly update tinyos-core containing all the latest CVS >> changes >> > > I think it would be nice ... and it would make support for gentoo easier one > day, even tough the development of gentoo ebuilds is quite stalled ... > > IIRC this has been requested some time ago, the answer was "use a binary > rpm/deb or take a cvs snapshot yourself" ... > I hope source tarballs will be provided one day ... moreover it's probably a > low effort task as they are probably already made somehow to build the > debs/rpm, just some changes to some build script ? > > > Aurélien > > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
